STAND. COM. REP. NO. 62

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1171

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1171 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, to provide that the single school calendar for all public schools shall not apply to certain schools designated by the Board of Education in furtherance of a plan to improve educational outcome in students.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that while this measure provides the Board of Education with authority to exempt certain schools from the single school calendar, such exemptions should be related to reform plans such as Zones for School Innovation in Hawaii's Race to the Top application. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1171 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

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JILL TOKUDA, Chair